Mystery mollusc at Point Lonsdale
January 23, 2010 by BayKeeper
Filed under Action, Featured, Wild Things
Special thanks to all the kids, parents and others who took part in the Baykeeper shoreline shell surveys in January 2010. True to form, every beach was different, highlighting the wonderful diversity of species that live in the Bay. Each survey is a journey of investigation and learning, sometimes into the unknown! This mollusc (about [...]
Cigarette butts bad news for the Bay
Cigarettes have been marketed as glamorous for the girls and macho for blokes…. anyone happy to set something in their mouth on fire has got to be a ‘cool and can-do’ type! Unfortunately, due to choices many of these people make, hundreds of thousands of cigarette butts enter the Bay each year via stormwater drains; [...]
Wake up Australia, there’s a whole lotta litter goin’ on!
Litter in waterways is not just visual pollution. International studies have found fragments of plastic frequently mistaken for food by diving and surface-skimming seabirds. The Melbourne Parks & Waterways ‘Tagged Litter Report’ (1993) estimated that four to five million items of floatable litter entered Melbourne’s waterways each year. Rock-lined Yarra bank under Westgate Bridge (December [...]
